Fallout 2 and WebAssembly

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A developer ported Fallout 2 Community Edition to run in the browser and describes the process using WebAssembly and Emscripten. The talk explains how WebAssembly works, what Emscripten provides (including the standard C library), how Asyncify enables async behavior, how to load game files on demand, and shows small Wasm-specific changes made to the game's C code with explanations for each modification.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:37WebAssembly
3. 13:20C++ to WebAssembly
4. 15:48Browser execution
5. 17:12Game loop sync issues
6. 21:55ASYNCIFY solution
7. 26:04First success in browser
8. 27:49Faster game loading
9. 30:41Threading problems solved
10. 34:37Game file system setup
11. 36:46Optimizing waits and audio
12. 40:40Stack overflow fix
13. 42:08DBFS saves handling
14. 43:51Project summary

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